Regional poverty lines, poverty profiles, and targeting

Quentin Wodon

Applied Economics Letters, 1999, vol. 6, issue 12, 809-812

Abstract: The most labour-intensive task in building a poverty profile consists in the estimation of the poverty lines. Does it matter whether poverty lines are estimated for the urban and rural sectors as a whole or by geographical area within each sector? Using a decomposition of the Gini index of inequality in poverty measures, it is shown that it does, but not too much in Bangladesh.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/135048599352222

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